Radical Islamist Terrorism Returns to Manhattan

At least 8 are dead and at least a dozen are injured.

A rented pickup truck from the Home Depot was driven on a West Side bicycle path in order to intentionally collide with cyclists and pedestrians. The 29 year old driver of the truck was shot by police and is in the hospital. All indications suggest that the perpetrator is a lone wolf and not a member of a larger group, but this is subject to change as more facts are uncivered. Starting with the 2016 Bastile Day attack in Nice, vehicular attacks have occurred 5 times in Europe over the past 1.5 years and it seems this threat will remain for the forsee able future.

Now the question remains, are our government leaders going to try to defend this terrorist or are they going to actually try to accomplish something? President Trump has tried to block radicals from entering the country from certain terrorists breeding countries, only to be blocked by activists Obama appointed judges. Warren Porter’s come out immediately declaring this guy to be a lone wolf and not affiliated with a larger group. What is a lone wolf? This terrorist has been under the tutelage of ISIS, he has been in contact with ISIS, he is part of Wahhabism that breeds terrorist, and yet the left still wants to identify him as some lone wolf. The left cannot grass that this is a world wide war against people who want infidels to submit or die. This man is reported to be “rejoicing” that he killed 8 and injured many more. The Mosque he was a member of, had been under surveillance since 2005. So why has it not been raided? He was here on a diversity visa program, which Chuck Schumer created. So, what’s the answer? Shall we finally start using some of the tried and tested programs that Israel has used for years? Profiling, blocking Muslims who are from dangerous states, or infiltrating suspected mosques.

Next, how has he managed to get a Florida drivers license, when not a citizen of the USA? Should we now block the use of trucks, considering so many of the recent terrorist attacks have been by trucks. Can we now say, “trucks kill people”.

Lastly, once again we see the attacks taking place in a gun free and sanctuary city. Can we begin to connect the dots. He was stopped when he was shot by a cop with a gun. I will tell you, if this happened in cities where conceal carry was permitted, he would have been taken out before he got out of the truck.

This is what you get when ideas are discounted because they come from a “conservative”. This is what you get when information is discounted because it comes from a “right wing news source”. This is what you get when you believe those “in need of assistance” can do no wrong and they just “want a better life”.

If you have no standards when formulating your actions, don’t be surprised when your results have no standards, either.

Warren Porter, you care to elaborate on your last comment. So you think he’s just a nut case and not identifying with ISIS? Think out of the box for once. The standard answer from the left is that every terrorist who strikes in America, except for 9/11, are individual lone wolves. There is no such thing as an Islamic lone wolf. They follow an ideology. What this guy did was to follow to the letter the instructions of ISIS on line. What’s interesting is that he got out of the truck with a pellet and a paint gun…answer, he wanted to be shot by the cops as a martyr in the act of killing infidels. Tell me Warren, how does it make you feel to know these people you’re in favor of opening the US border to, would gladly slit your throat, if give the chance.

When DAESH dispatches several of their own men across international boundaries, provides said individuals with financial support and said people arrive for no reason other than to attack us, then we can argue that the attack is not a lone wolf operation.

Blaine, I am the one who first mentioned that this guy could be a nut wannabe, and thinking out of the box is exactly why I brought that possibility up.

Saipov was bragging about his actions and how proud he is. IF he truly wanted to be a martyr for islam, he would be dead.
He brought non-lethal weapons that only ensured he would not cause mass causalities.
He chose a normal weekday as his target, not this coming weekend during the New York City marathon.
He is not known to be a member of any terrorist group, he had to get his info off the net.

IMO, the circumstances around this act point more to a guy living out his deluded fantasies and saying ‘look at me,’ than it does an organized and coordinated attack to instill fear into people.

Look, I know that I am just speculating and we can come to find out that he is part of a terrorist group and acted with them. That we could find out that yesterday was just a test run for this weekend. I’m not discounting anything. But something just feels off, or different, about this one.

Circles the wagons. Wall up the borders. To the mattresses everyone. Obama and the infidels are here. Get a grip Blaine.Stop panicking start breathing.

Write your congressman demanding a well thought out immigration plan be developed and passed into law. Not out of fear but out of future. The problem is the inability of repubs/tea baggers/conservatives/alt right/radical right conservatives to lead the country. It is their watch now. They control all 3 branches of the government as well as most of the states.

Yet they do not lead. The best these ideological driven losers in Congress can do is tell us Mexico will build a wall and we will be safe! They refuse to come to terms on a plan for all Americans because they think they have some superior ideology. Oh wait Trump has the answer! He is going to stop the diversity program Blaine mentioned. These guys are so out of it. If “the gang of eight”(which included Schumer) plan to reform the immigration laws in 2013 would have been given it’s due the diversity lottery would have been done away with already.

So, what’s the answer?

Tax cuts of course Blaine, tax cuts for billionaires will solve everything. OH wait better yet, Make the Saudis pay for the border wall on the east coast and the Iranians pay for the wall on the western border. The point is Congress doesn’t care that us citizens are tired of lone wolf terrorist attacks. The only way to solve that is to throw a billionaire donor in jail every time there is another attack, make them responsible for the attack.

OK I’ll cut to the chase Blaine. IMHO we should employee very stringent measures for the lone wolfs, not these half steps you mention. Take out the family as well as the lone wolf. One family member for each of the dead, double that if the “martyr” can’t manage to get himself killed in the process. Do it in front of him. I know I know I know kinda severe. But effective in the short term. Lets call it the “It takes a village to educate a martyr” plan. But lets not discriminate, lets do it for the guy who killed those people at the black church as well. It would be smarter than denying entry to everyone Muslim or Christian or Jewish or whatever you assume the lone wolf religious and/or ideological beliefs to be. Or building a silly border wall.

The Isreali’s answers only seem to prolong the war. I mean they do all that stuff and they still have attacks. They even relaxed their strict gun laws to help in the lone wolf effort. We can keep people out from “dangerous states” but that is laughable as it is directed at only the Muslim extremist.

LOL…if true j2t2, why are you people constantly in opposition? Opposition to what?

We are in opposition because your team doesn’t lead Royal, how much clearer can I make it? Their idea of making us safe is a wall on the southern border and targeting all Muslims as if this a religious war. Stop interfering in their world or execute the martyrs families seems to be the only answers. But hey you tell me, what have the tea baggers offered up in Congress to solve the problem Royal.

Link to fact proving this assertion j2t2. Or…just shut up as you usually do when challenged.

Royal you gotta crawl out from under that rock every once in a while and listen to what your team actually says. If you are looking for a link that shows conservative in action get real dude, they just mumble this stuff. But hey when we are 20 trillion in debt and tea baggers are complaining about the debt up until the point Trump is elected you gotta know I’m on to something. They actually believe cutting taxes will fix the problem. SO if you believe that what is left for you to question?

So Royal speaking of shutting up when challenged what do you think of executing family members of martyrs? Whether they be Muslim Christian or Jewish? I suggested beheading Muslims, crucifying Christians and stoning Jewish martyrs. We can burn Pagans and Wiccan martyrs. The MMGW martyrs we can subject to an endless loop of Hannity Limbaugh and you telling them how smart you think you are.

The state tax deduction is not that simple. For example, Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no sales tax. Oregon makes up for it with its state income tax. Other states, such as Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming have no income tax. And still other states offset higher or lower income and/or sales taxes with property taxes.

Under current law, state sales taxes may be deductible if the state does not charge a sales tax. So this proposal is extremely unfair to some states.

Eliminating the mortgage deduction is also very unfair. The cost of living is not spread evenly across the country. Limitations on space and the desirability of some locations means some cities will routinely have more expensive houses.

The highest tax rate could change dramatically because the taxation rate for an LLC dropped from 39% to 25%. What that means is any wealthy person who declares themselves a consultant in their own corporation- an LLC- can pay a lot less.

Are corporate loopholes and write-offs closed? If not the reduction of the corporate tax rate will be an absolute disaster. Loopholes and write-offs mean US corporations currently pay an effective rate of 20%. A reduced tax rate without closing those loopholes and write-offs will mean reduce the effective rate to almost zero.

Finally, the tax proposal will allow churches to participate in politics. That would be fine if they lost their tax exemption, but they will not.

Correction:
Under the current proposal, if a state does not charge an income tax, they may still continue to deduct a state sales tax.

The upshot is that people in the middle class in blue states will see their taxes go up, in order for people in red states to have their taxes go down. (As it is, the net flow of federal spending moves from blue states to red states). A tax proposal like this one may not pass constitutional muster.

phx8, you misunderstood. I am writing about the elimination of deductibility for state and local “income” tax on the federal tax return.

Voters in each individual state should determine how they want to fund their state government. The burden of New York state income tax (for example) should not fall on my shoulders in Texas where we do not tax income.

Let “fairness” rule.

Where you choose to live in the US does not affect your Social Security benefits phx8. Why should it affect mortgage deduction? We want “fairness”.

For tax reasons, the IRS treats an LLC as a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or, if the LLC elects, as a corporation. Please provide the link you used for projected LLC rates phx8.

Royal here is a link that will help to explain my comment and put your “Regarding tax cuts for the rich claim you make, but can not defend with facts, take a look at the highest tax rate. Did it change?As for corporations, does our Little Liberal Buddy know who owns corporations? Has j2t2 ever owned stock, mutual funds, or corporate bonds? ” comment to rest.

Still conservatives are silent on the deficit and the debt! Well except to say “Correct j2t2, and half of it belongs to Obama.” which is of course inaccurate. The debt belongs to the American people and it is disingenuous of Royal to use Obama as an excuse for a tax cut that will add to the debt now. Seems he forgot all those starve the beast repubs that got the debt rolling during the Reagan years.

“Still conservatives are silent on the deficit and the debt! Well except to say “Correct j2t2, and half of it belongs to Obama.”

What a silly comment by my Pal j2t2. The CBO has not scored the tax plan yet. Depending upon the growth in GDP they throw into the formula, this tax plan could eliminate our deficit and begin working on reducing the debt.

I will be pleased to write comments on on the origin, size, and potentially crushing national debt every day if you wish.

There is zero evidence to suggest that these tax cuts will create enough economic growth to pay for themselves, let alone decrease the national debt. We tried this experiment in the 2000s with George Bush. While we collected record revenue in nominal terms, the revenue as a percent of GDP went down and the debt grew higher and higher despite a bull market.

But you, without any scoring, use tea leaves to predict deficits from the tax plan. Who would follow your logic? Another sheeple!

Not tea leaves Royal and before you criticize anyone’s logic lets look at yours shall we. Royal says we have only 2 choices the CBO or tea leaves and he doesn’t give any credence to the CBO, unless of course it fits his preconceived ideology. So that leaves us tea leaves as Royals preference! Then he claims I use tea leaves despite having nothing to back that lie up.

Yes he says the many other economist are wrong and I am the sheeple for trusting what they say. While Royal blindly believes what the repubs say! Jeez Royal if logic was dynamite you couldn’t blow your nose.

Please, don’t give me the “Wikipedia” version. Have you no other sources? Are you so weak you can’t discuss the national debt in your own words?

Facts are terrible, aren’t they Royal, for you conservatives. To the point of calling me a pussy! Pussy and sheeple in the same comment! How sad you have to resort to such vulgar language and attacking the messenger instead of providing factual information.

OH, well…we have “fake” media so I guess it’s not a stretch to have “not interested” in reporting facts media.

My Hillary loving Pals must still be smarting from the results of the election. And now this to add to their misery.

We had the smartest woman in the world, crowned and clothed in fame and glory, spending over $300 million with a rigged primary election not being able to beat a white, male neophyte politician billionaire promoting conservative political principles.

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